READ THIS, you slack-jawed idiots, or THE NEW CONSOLE WARS, z0MG!

[Bells]

Originally Posted by fifthfiend

Oh man, I can't decide which part of that to laugh at first.

Oh let me dream why dont'ya :shifty:

Over here its rare (REALLY RARE) to see a original game... 80 to 90% of all games came from piracy... but thats just because over here a original game can gost from 80 to 240 bucks...
If you are not in Japan, EUA or England, thats a reality, games cost much more or much much more

[MuMu]

And this will make they lower the price, how exactly? The prices are like this because there are no factorys here, everything is imported.

BUT I heard the 360 or some other was mounting a factory here so...Joy.

[ZAKtheGeek]

Theoretically, pirating causes game prices to be jacked up in order to make up for lost sales.

[Bells]

Also... if there is no piracy, there will be more demand for factories and investiment to produce games on other countries...

Por example... Microsoft is putting the Live system for their X-Box in Brasil soon. So that people can pay a more fair price AND with their own currency... also, Tech Support on Portuguese... by doing so, Microsoft just took over a large chunck of a entire Continent, and a Country full of gamers wishing that a company did just that...

So Really... its just a smart bet... if Sony decides to make games on a country like that, more people would by a PS3 and original games.... because its just better then waiting for the long time of arrival and higher cost of the product of Other companies

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by ZAKtheGeek

Theoretically, pirating causes game prices to be jacked up in order to make up for lost sales.

Yeah, that's one of the parts I was laughing at.

I mean honestly, if your 'theoretically' doesn't hold up under the withering scrutiny of anybody who managed to stay half-awake through econ 1, can you even call it 'theoretically'?

[ZAKtheGeek]

Oh, you know how vaguely people toss around that term.

[Bells]

So.... The PS3 got Shinier!

More power to HDMI !

Originally Posted by IGN

Data transfer specs also got a major boost, with bandwidth increased from 4.95Gbps (gigabytes-per-second) to 10.2Gbps, and signal clock speed is bumped from 165MHz to 340MHz. The extra bandwidth the 1.3 update provides is necessary for the other interesting features that are rolling out. HDMI 1.2 could only support 24-bit color, whereas 1.3 will expand to 30-, 36-, and 48-Bit color. While most current-generation HDTVs do not have the capacity to display such an expanded color pallet, the recent advances in LCD technology announced by eCinema and AOU will bring such capabilities to market as early as Q4 2006. The highly anticipated SED technology from Toshiba and Canon will also be able to make use of the upgraded color pallet. When fully implemented, 36- and 48-Bit color LCD, SED, and other flat panel displays will finally rival the picture quality of CRTs and mark the final ascendancy of flat panels as the reference-grade technology in HD.

http://gear.ign.com/articles/715/715311p1.html

It looks like that Sony is making a Hardware that makes games look good with less effort of the game producer team to do so... this could be interesting

Specially since it dosent make the price go up!

[[ray.z]]

Originally Posted by IGN

While most current-generation HDTVs do not have the capacity to display such an expanded color pallet, the recent advances in LCD technology announced by eCinema and AOU will bring such capabilities to market as early as Q4 2006.

Wait so [almost] everyone who does have a HDTV currently will have to purchase a new one to gain access to the full power that the PS3 yields?

And since this is new technology, won't that mean that it'll be more expensive?

:shifty:

Originally Posted by IGN

HDMI is superior to component (green, blue, red) connections in that it is digital, rather than analog, and it's better than DVI because it can also carry audio information. It's also critical to HDCP "protected-pathway" next-gen copy-protection.

Does that have something to do with better piracy protection?

Originally Posted by Bellsouth Minion

It looks like that Sony is making a Hardware that makes games look good with less effort of the game producer team to do so... this could be interesting

Originally Posted by IGN

Assuming game developers choose to take advantage of 36- and 48-Bit color, the ability to output such a broader color spectrum could give the PS3 a solid technologic advantage over the Xbox 360, which will not be able to transmit such signals over component cables.

Assuming. Assuming.

Originally Posted by IGN

HDMI 1.3 also supports what the standard founders are calling "lip sync support," a feature that automatically synchronizes audio and video tracks. The new algorithm is said to be markedly improved over previous versions of the technology, and will hopefully spell the end of kung fu-movie style flapping lips.

Hahahahaha. Remember Kung Pow?

[Bells]

As far as i can tell you, if you put a Wii (comparing it to a Crispier Gamecube) and a PS3 on a normal, good quality, Tv Set, They will look great and similar (COnsidering the same game with the same detail level)

BUT if you put both on a Fucking Huge "42' Plasma-Wide-Screen-Digital-Cappucino-maker" TV set The PS3 Game will Look Better, Shinier and Clean, as the Wii game Would not

I Guess that this applies to XBOX 360 too...

So, if you like playing games with the graphical level of Resident Evil 4 or GRAW, the PS3 wil give you that on ANY Tv Set...

But if what you want is a "Playable CG" kinda Look, in a Huge HD Tv, THEN you need top dollar for the PS3 and The HD Tv set...

Wich... im imagining, could start being "common place" (In price and distribution) in about 2-5 years

[greed]

Originally Posted by Bellsouth Minion

2-5 years

From what I've heard about the uptake, it's more at the 5 year end, so next console generation Yuus, PS4s and X720s?